Toronto interiors,
priced before we book.

We price surface area, not square footage. The lever most homeowners miss is ceiling height. An 8-foot ceiling and a 9-foot-6 ceiling in the same floor plan are not the same job — there’s roughly 20 percent more wall on the taller one, plus a taller ladder day. Older Toronto homes (Cabbagetown, the Annex, parts of Riverdale) often surprise people here.

Then there’s prep state. Smooth, clean walls in a 2018 condo? Cheap and fast. Cracked plaster in a 1912 semi, peeling paint at the kitchen window where the seal failed, or two layers of wallpaper hiding under a skim coat from the last owner — that’s real labour, and we price it separately so you can see it. We’ll flag what we find before we start, not after.

Colour strategy is the last big one. A whole-home single off-white is the cleanest job we do. Five accent walls in five rooms is five separate cut-ins, five tape-offs, five cleanups. Going dark-to-light (charcoal feature wall back to Chantilly Lace, say) almost always needs a sealing primer coat — call it three coats, not two.

Toronto ranges we see most weeks: a downtown 2-bed condo lands around $3,000–$5,500 CAD. A Leslieville or Riverdale semi, main floor plus the bedroom level, is usually $5,500–$8,500. A full Forest Hill detached with crown, panelled doors, and a stairwell runs $9,000–$16,000. Your configurator number will sit inside one of those bands within about ten percent.